I need to execute a script on a linux machine via a cron scheduler.

I currently have a .pl script file which I can run on my Win xp box with a perl interpreter.

This linux setup has specified it can only run .sh script files.

Can I just rename the script file to .sh, or is there considerable difference between these 2 file types?

.sh and .pl are just plain text files, so yep, you can just rename it.

how has the linux machine "specified" that only .sh files can be run? this seems odd and is not something I've come across before.



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